Thousands of Tombs in Saudi Desert Spotted From Space

Live Science ^ | February 15, 2011 | Rebecca Kessler

[MaxMax]

Hah, I was actually referring to that old twilight zone show where the
camera stole peoples souls when their photo was taken.
I think it was also an Indian belief.

[Vendome]

I don’t smoke Camel but I’d fight for a Taryton.... LOL

[GOPJ]

And the people making those rugs are usually child slaves...

[mamelukesabre]

havn’t seen cigarette ads in years. I almost forgot they ever existed.

[mamelukesabre]

lots of primitive peoples thought that. Not just indians

[Steve Van Doorn]

I will assume you forgot the /s at the end of your post.

The things Islam have been given credit for either are not true or if you read more about the individuals that done the work either flat out said they hated Islam or strongly implied it. As such people like Ibn al-Haytham were forced to live confined to his house for 20 years until he died.

[zot]

Thanks for the ping. In narrow valleys amid all that sand, there are many oases in Saudi Arabia.

[SunkenCiv]

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[TheOldLady]

Archeologists all over the world are salivating, poor babies.

[bigheadfred]

Archeologists all over the world are salivating

A couple of days out in the big empty would put an end to that.

Be good for 'em though. Show them the real meaning of true grit.

[RichInOC]

“A lot of holes in the desert, and a lot of problems are buried in those holes. But you gotta do it right. I mean, you gotta have the hole already dug before you show up with a package in the trunk. Otherwise, you’re talking about a half-hour to forty-five minutes worth of digging. And who knows who’s gonna come along in that time? Pretty soon, you gotta dig a few more holes. You could be there all ****in’ night.”

[TheOldLady]

I’m thinking that they will never have a chance to explore the tombs. If the burial grounds are not even supposed to be photographed because of sacred islumb, it’s a good bet that no non-moose limb will be allowed to desecrate moose limb tombs.

They date from before islumb? Blasphemy! Off with your head.

[Max in Utah]

......actually it's more likely caused by INBREEDING....

"Nothin' spells lovin' like marrying your cousin." --Al Bundy, speaking of Peg's family

[null and void]

Makes me wonder on occassion, when the Bible warns us to beware of cries of "peace, peace, and there is no peace", if it was, in part, alluding to the peaceless Religion of Peace?

Hmmmm, good point!

[little jeremiah]

Pretty much anything attributed to Islam that is useful or beautiful they stole from others. In the case of algebra, astronomy, zero, “arabic” numberals, medicine, architecture, horse breeding (don’t know about camels) and archery, and much more, were all very advanced in India many, many centuries before.

[mamelukesabre]

I dunno about the horses. Arabian horses didn’t come from india. Arabians are a totally unique animal. they have a different number of ribs and vertebra than all the other horse breeds have.

I did know about arabic numerals. However, the indians quit using those numerals centuries before the arabs started using them. That’s why arabs get credit. That’s how an old indian friend of mine explained it.

[little jeremiah]

I’ve read in one of the Puranas about “beautiful Sindh horses”, Sindh signifying an area of India which is now Pakistan. The Puranas are immeasurably ancient.

And I have dozens of books in my house right now with Sanskrit numerals which are the origin of “arabic” numerals. They are also extremely similar to Bengali and Hindi numerals, as those languages are more or less Sanksrit derived.

http://www.omniglot.com/language/numerals.htm

Devanagari numerals are Sanskrit and the most ancient; the ones in the link are not extremely well written but more or less okay, give the general form.

[little jeremiah]

This link is a bit better in that it has the names. You can see the language connection to Sanskrit.

[potlatch]

I’ll give them points for the invention of algebra and even the number zero, but the breeding of horses, camels and the use of tobacco and coffee just might have ‘evolved’ on their own, lol.

[DryFly]

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.